“…Although SST-14 or SST-28 show binding to SSTR with similar affinity, the octapeptide analogs display high affinity to SSTR2 and SSTR5, moderate affinity to SSTR3, and have only poor binding to SSTR1 and SSTR4 (9,14,18). Based on the findings that various neuroendocrine malignancies and many other solid tumors such as breast, lung, renal, pancreatic, gastric, colon cancers, and brain tumors as well as androgenindependent metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate express SSTR2 and͞or SSTR5 (3,9,(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22), radiolabeled octapeptide analogs were designed for autoradiographic detection of such tumors and their metastases (3,7,23,24). Thus,…”